Illustrated Call-Outs in OpenOffice
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
The formulas for this, which will work in LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) Calc, are to be found at User Offline: How to write a spreadsheet formula for ISBN-10 to ISBN-13 and ASIN. Considering that post is dated in 2008, I thought it worthwhile to add another link. I wanted to do this, but to ISBNs with…
I’ve seen many comments and questions on the various e-mail lists about just how compatible OpenOffice, especially OpenOffice.org Writer, actually is with Microsoft Office. I’ve largely converted my own business, including the publishing element (Energion Publications), and while there are some difficulties, the change in cost is well worth it. Even for a very small…
Jason Hiner of TechRepublic, in an article titled The market has rejected Linux Desktops. Get over it shows that Linux market share in desktop computing has hung in the +/- 1% ranger for a decade and suggests this is unlikely to change very much. He cites a number of reasons, but I think the most…
I’m a bit eccentric and don’t use the visual editor with WordPress on this blog and several others that I maintain. For a number of posts I write my basic material in OpenOffice Writer and then post it. Up to now I have added the formatting by hand, but today I decided to write myself…
A person with a toolkit generally spends a bit of time learning to use the tools in it, otherwise he or she will get limited benefit from the tools available. It’s important to have the right tools, and it’s also important to learn how to use them effectively. This post applies in that general sense…
I would really like to be able to recommend to a small business client that they adopt Linux because it is lower cost. I have been able to recommend OpenOffice.org to a number of folks, and have even had it accepted. That is because for most users it will perform all the functions for which…